A Western program to “burn out” Russia

The military meeting, which was hosted by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a military base in Germany, with the participation of about 40 countries, concluded with the adoption of a Western program, which includes pledges to provide more weapons to Ukraine on the one hand, and exhausting Russia and complicating its task in threatening neighboring countries on the other.

“The coming weeks are critical in the course of Russia’s war on Ukraine,” said US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who hosted the talks at Ramstein Air Force Base, adding that discussions with allies focused on strengthening Ukraine’s military capabilities in the long term. He stressed that the security meeting “will be a working group for monthly communication to assess Ukraine’s capabilities.” Austin said that Russia lost a lot of equipment and soldiers in the war, and it is having difficulty replacing the equipment that it lost because of the sanctions that were imposed on it. He described the Russian President’s threats to use nuclear weapons as a serious matter, saying: “Everyone will lose if a nuclear war erupts.” (ISIS) terrorist fighters. Putin pre-empted Guterres’ demands for a cease-fire and to allow the evacuation of civilians trapped in the Azovstal region in Mariupol, by saying: “We hear that there are civilians in Azovstal, the Ukrainian army must release them, otherwise it will behave like ISIS.”

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned for the first time of what he called a “real danger” of the outbreak of a third world war, considering that “the danger is serious and real and cannot be underestimated.” Lavrov added that Moscow would continue peace talks with Kyiv, which he accused of “pretending” to negotiate.

As for the Secretary of the Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, he gave another unprecedented warning, by talking about the possibility of Ukraine disintegrating into several states. He said that the West encouraged Ukraine to be hostile to Russia, and that “the element of relations with Russia was the only one that binds the peoples inhabiting Ukraine.”